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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I’m an idiot (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by standish234@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I’ve been silently moaning about the transfer speeds to my storage devices.

Only today did I think to plug the network cable directly into the mesh satellite and not into a switch and over Powerline. 10x speed boost.

I’m an idiot and I’m posting here so I don’t get too cocky next time.

Feel free to laugh.

(“Advice” flair just on the tiny chance that someone else could be helped. )

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[–] Pup5432@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My winner of winners was flaky connection from our gateway router to my lab. It slowly degraded over time and got to the point I was lucky to get 10MB transfer speeds. Rebuilt my main server 3-4 times trying different things to fix it. Hooked up another server and it could talk to the first server fine. Thought it was a bad switch but everything tested fine until I found one link that wasn’t operating properly. Long story short some type of varment got ahold of my copper run in our craw space and damaged it enough to work but not well.

[–] prone-to-drift@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Im my mind, connections like this are either fine or fubar. I wouldn't have imagined a digital connection behaving like this even in my dreams!

[–] Pup5432@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I “think” what was going on was it was a barely working run that was flipping between 100/1000. Both ends at the time we’re unmanaged switches so I didn’t have a good way to check. Because of that I did swap the one to a little 8 port Cisco managed switch so I won’t fall into this trap again.